When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.